FORT COLLINS, Colorado (PNN) - March 27, 2012 - Officials in Fort Collins, Colorado, are investigating after a Loveland man formally complained that a pig thug cop shoved him without provocation - and the incident was caught on video.
A video posted to YouTube on Sunday showed 24-year-old Matt Hefferon being shoved by pig thug cop Dan Calahan and then arrested by pig thug cop Kyle Bendzsa.
At a press conference, Fort Collins pig thug cop Chief John Hutto explained that pig thug cops had been called to the Old Town District at around 1:45 a.m. Sunday morning by a pedi-cab taxi operator who accused Hefferon and his friends, Joshua Cullip and Jarvis Gullatt, of damaging his bike.
“What happened is we asked the guy for a ride,” said Cullip. “As we were loading up on his bike, it ended up tipping back because we had too much weight on it. It ended up tipping back and breaking the brackets on his reflector.”
Cullip began recording the incident after one of the pig thug cops returned his ID.
In the video, Calahan can be seen talking to Hefferon when the fascist pig thug cop shoves the man for no apparent reason and yells, “Step back!”
Bendzsa quickly apprehends Hefferon, telling him he is under arrest.
“For what?” Hefferon asks over and over again.
“Shoved him for no reason,” Cullip says. “You saw that, right? No reason. He shoved him back. I got it on camera. I ain’t even trippin’.”
At that point, Calahan approaches Cullip, asking again for his ID.
“There’s no need for my ID, dude,” Cullip replies.
“You can hold up that camera all you want,” Calahan remarks. “Get your ID out.”
In an interview with the Coloradan on Monday, Hefferon insisted that he had not provoked Calahan. “I was just standing there talking, explaining,” Hefferon recalled. “All of a sudden, he just snaps. He just unloaded into my chest.”
“I was in no position to be any threat,” the Loveland man added. “I wasn’t in his face to begin with. As I’m sitting there explaining it to him, not even close to him, he tells me to get back. I step back and fold my arms and stare at him. That’s when he punches me in the chest and tells me to get back. They keep telling me I’m resisting arrest.”
Fascist pig thug cop Chief Hutto on Monday cautioned that the video only showed one minute out of a 17-minute interaction between the pig thug cops and the innocent citizens.
Heffron is facing charges of criminal mischief and obstructing a pig thug cop. Cullip was charged with interference and Gullatt was charged with obstructing a pig thug cop.
Meanwhile, the outlaw fascist pig thug cops who assaulted Heffron and Cullip continue to be paid out of public funds.
